Guest Post: Ali Zacker

Hi- I’m Ali Zacker and I am so excited to serve as the Charleston Campus KidSpring Director! Yankee, Clemson Diving alumnus, blonde, amateur baker, runner, middle child…these words can all be used to describe me.

I moved around a lot when I was younger but would say that I grew up in Allentown, Pennsylvania, with my mom and dad, my older brother and my younger sister. When I graduated from high school, I moved to Clemson, South Carolina, where I was a springboard diver at Clemson University. It was during my time at Clemson that I began to attend and eventually join NewSpring Church. Since I can remember I have had a passion for children, to this day my family jokes that “you can always find Ali sitting at the kids table,” and throughout high school and most of college I was affectionately known among friends as “mom.” So, naturally, I found my “sweet spot” serving in KidSpring. In May of 2009 I graduated from Clemson with a BS in Industrial Engineering. After graduating I left for Perth, Australia, where I spent four months doing mission work and attending a Sports Discipleship Training School (DTS) with Youth With A Mission (YWAM). After Australia I went to Mexico City, Mexico, and spent three months doing an outreach before returning back home to the states. For the past seven months I have been living in Anderson, South Carolina, and working for NewSpring, first as the Anderson Campus Discipleship Intern and then full time as the Assistant to the Central Discipleship Director. Now, I am moving to Charleston and I can’t wait to be a part of what God is already doing in this city and the incredible things I know He is going to do!